Debate

Brazil’s Rousseff cruises through last TV debate (Reuters)

October 30th, 2010

This combination photograph shows Brazilian presidential candidates Dilma Rousseff (L) of the ruling Worker's Party and Jose Serra of the PSDB party attending ampaign rallies in Sao Paulo in October 2010. REUTERS/Paulo WhitakerReuters - Brazilian ruling party candidate Dilma Rousseff cruised through the final television debate with her presidential rival on Friday as another poll showed her heading for a convincing win…

Last chance for Brazil’s Serra in TV debate (Reuters)

October 29th, 2010

This combination photograph shows Brazilian presidential candidates Dilma Rousseff (L) of the ruling Worker's Party and Jose Serra of the PSDB party attending ampaign rallies in Sao Paulo in October 2010. REUTERS/Paulo WhitakerReuters - Brazilian presidential candidate Jose Serra has a last chance to win over voters in a televised debate on Friday night after a new poll showed him trailing by…

China’s Wen inspiring debate with calls for reform (AP)

October 15th, 2010

FILE - In this Oct. 6, 2010 file photo, China's Prime Minister Wen Jiabao addresses the audience at the 6th EU China business summit in Brussels. The Chinese prime minister has called for change to China's political system repeatedly in the past few months. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe, File)AP - Calls for reform of China’s political system have come repeatedly in the past few months from an unexpected source — the country’s premier — and his surprising remarks…

WikiLeaks chief lashes out at media during debate (AP)

September 30th, 2010

AP - WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange lashed out at the mainstream media during a debate at a London university Thursday, fighting back at a string of unfavorable stories that have…

Turkey: gallery attack ignites debate (AP)

September 26th, 2010

AP - The gang of several dozen men with sticks and pepper spray moved methodically from one art gallery to the next, assaulting overflow crowds that had spilled into the…

Mexico journalists debate cartels, self-censorship (AP)

September 23rd, 2010

Federal police officers stand guard during the burial of Diario de Juarez newspaper photographer Carlos Santiago in the northern border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Saturday, Sept. 18, 2010. Carlos Santiago, a news photographer with the local Diario de Juarez newspaper, was shot and killed on Sept. 16 while another photographer was seriously injured when gunmen in two cars intercepted them and opened fire. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)AP - The threats, four or five of them, came to reporters at Imagen, a daily newspaper in the once-quiet state of Zacatecas where drug cartels have taken over in…

Pakistan floods renew heated debate on dam project (AP)

September 18th, 2010

A Pakistani man rides an improvised raft along a flooded area in Kaipur Nathan Shah village, Sindh province, Pakistan on Saturday, Sept. 18, 2010. Floodwaters continue to rise in parts of the south in what Pakistani and U.N. officials have said is one of the largest humanitarian disasters in living memory. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)AP - This summer’s floods in Pakistan have reopened a quarter-century-old debate on whether to build a large hydroelectric dam on the River Indus, a dispute that has split the…

Egypt TV show stirs debate over Muslim Brotherhood (AP)

September 3rd, 2010

AP - The bearded young cleric yells at a young woman for lifting her traditional veil from her face while speaking to him on the street, and rants against Egyptians…

Burqa Bans, Halal Debate: Is French Secularism Anti-Islam? (Time.com)

August 25th, 2010

Time.com - France’s secularists are passionate about the separation of church and state — but is their defense of laÏcitÉ turning into a state-sanctioned form of anti-Islam?

Tags: antiIslam, Secularism, Halal,…

Analysis: Debate grows over keeping troops in Iraq (AP)

August 12th, 2010

FILE - In this July 13, file 2010 photo, U.S. Army soldiers from 2nd Brigade, 10th Mountain Division are seen on board a C-17 aircraft at Baghdad International Airport as they begin their journey to the United States. As the U.S. winds up combat operations in Iraq this month, a gap is widening between the militaries of both countries and their political masters over whether American soldiers should stay beyond the 2011 deadline for all of them to withdraw. It's the latest potential standoff as the uneasy allies each try to end the seven-year U.S. war without unraveling Iraq's still-precarious security. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)AP - As the U.S. winds up combat operations in Iraq this month, a gap is widening between the militaries of both countries and their political masters over whether American…